Happy New Year! I’d love to say that I missed blogging during my Christmas break, but I didn’t. However I am looking forward to a year that will be packed with exciting developments in the world of humanitarian.info, etc, etc. First up: GAMES!
I’ve written about humanitarian games before, but the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction has just released a new game on disaster risk reduction. Stop Disasters is a fantastic game with a wealth of information on disaster management.
It’s basically SimDisaster: you have a budget, a location and an imminent disaster.� Manage the budget, uncover key facts and reduce the disaster risk for that location. I managed to plant about 300 mangrove trees before realising that I was meant to build a broadcast system as well.
It’s the first time I’ve seen an online game of this type that really delivers in terms of playability and education. Go play!
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The game sounds interesting, but I just can’t seem to get it to load on my ‘net connection.
Hmmm… the connection appears to be down. Clearly my blog post has sparked off so much demand that their server has collapsed….
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i got a school assignment on this thing and i can’t freaking find all of the keyfacts for the flooding sim
can someone help me out?